"My introduction to LCHF started out as follows. I started out obese at 123.5kg in June 2012 (as a 26 y/o, 182cm tall male). At 17 y/o I would have been approximately ~70kg when I met my wife. Clearly being looked after in the food department, mixed with busy work life, 4 children (5 now) and generally being lazy; all contributed their fair share to gaining 50kg+. So in May 2012 I'm starting to feel a bit shitty with myself (my appearance, my fitness and my overall health). Work involved driving around in a small car and wearing a duty belt to hold keys, torch, radio, etc. At some point it became painful to simply sit in the car as the belt was digging into my stomach. I think that's what really cinched it for me. So while driving around I was listening to my weekly fix of computer security podcast, and the show host discussed how he had achieved great results on a 'very low carb' type of diet. So I looked into it and it made sense. My wife and I spoke about giving it a try for 30 days, and we kicked it off 1 June 2012.

After seeing the results we did, we would have been mad to have thrown in the towel. After 12 months I'd lost 30kg+. I continued to lose weight and hit 46kg lost after 18 months. (At the time of writing this I'm hovering at about 41-42kg lost). I still have a ways to go - currently around 20% BF and hoping to get to around 15%. Along the way I've transitioned from a pure LCHF to more of a LCHF/Primal mix. I'm loving the varied foods we get exposed to, and we certainly never paid any attention to them when adhering to a typical WOE. I've achieved my results without exercise. After a few months of LCHF I tried running. Still quite overweight and far from fit at that point, it didn't really do it for me. I also tried cycling, but I was about as good at that as I was at running. I bought a power cage, barbell and weights and did a good 3 months of weight lifting at the start of 2013, and I was seeing great strength improvements, but I decided to put it on hold as I was having trouble measuring my weight loss results with any muscle gains I was seeing.

At present I'm just loving my new-found energy and expend as much of it as I can with the kids. At some point along the way, I started IF (intermittent fasting) - initially just skipping breakfast, then I worked up to eating dinner-only on a daily basis. I dabbled with 48 hour fasts, but I'm pretty set now in the one-meal-per-day routine.Dog For Sale Peoria Il At the 12 and 18 month marks, I got blood workups done and was super-stoked with the results. In Ground Hot Tubs TampaOverall I'd have to say I've seen great improvements in under two years, and speaking about my methods and personal achievements with my friends seemed to encourage them to look at their bodies and lives and do something about what they weren't happy with. Golden Retriever Pups For Sale Wi

I even wrote up a basic breakdown of my initial knowledge base as an ebook to help out friends and other people who wanted to know what I did and how I did it."A time-lapse GIF of a 26-year-old woman's dramatic weight loss has gone viral. And we can't stop watching. The clip shows the woman's 88-pound transformation in the space of just five seconds. Amanda - who wishes for her last name to remain a secret - started taking pictures of herself in 2011, to help her stay on track during her weight loss journey. But with her photographs attracting more than three million views, Reddit user morphs_your_progress decided to create a GIF. Hard work and dedication allowed Amanda to lose more than a third of her body weight in just one year, but now her efforts are all the more impressive - with the transformation happening before our very eyes, in five seconds. Through following the Ketogenic diet (high-fat, moderate protein and low-carbohydrate) and regular exercise, her body has completely transformed dropping from 222lbs to 134lbs.

And she has managed to keep the weight off. "The Ketogenic diet is a sustainable way to eat," Sam Feltham, founder of Smash The Fat diet, told HuffPost UK Lifestyle. "For some people it is the only way that they'll ever be able to maintain a normal body weight, due to biochemical imbalances caused by overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates." He adds: "The great thing about Ketogenic diets is that there is no calorie counting and you eat amazingly nutritious and tasty food such as whole eggs, butter and pork belly. See Also: The Shocking Truth About Before And After Photos "A common objection to Ketogenic diets is that people feel like they won't be able to exercise without carbohydrates. This may be true at first as your body is switching from being a sugar burner to a fat burner, but this only lasts for about 3 weeks. "During the first 3 weeks of following a Ketogenic diet I recommend people to do low intensity exercise, such as walking or slow weight lifting, and then after 3 weeks you can start to bring the level of intensity up."

Some believe that the diet is unhealthy, Sam explains. "Many people get it mixed up with a condition called ketoacidosis which only really happens with people who have type 1 diabetes or are alcoholic. Ketogenic diets work on the most part by lowering insulin levels to a normal level, which is a fat storage hormone." Diet And Fitness Weight Loss Low Carb Diet Diet Tips High Fat DietIn June 2013, I was absolutely desperate to lose weight. I decided that it was the one thing I had battled and never conquered my entire life and that I would do it or die trying. A friend in whom I had confided – after the calories in/calories out (CICO) method had failed me – suggested I read Gary Taubes book, Why We Get Fat. Within two days, I devoured that book and began a journey to health that would lead me on remarkable paths, healing physical and psychological hurts that I didn’t yet fully understand and am still discovering. The first six or seven months of LCHF involved my following a plan of fewer than 20 grams of total carbohydrates.

In addition to Taubes, I read anything and everything I could. I ordered supplements, experimented with LC flours and sweeteners and completely changed my eating and cooking habits. The first 50 lbs melted away, and I was smitten with low carb. Shortly thereafter, my weight began to stall, which is about the time I discovered a number of low carb support groups on Facebook. I spent most of the next year reading everything I could and following every hack of nearly everyone I met. My time was dedicated to tracking macros, increasing fat, increasing protein, eliminating dairy, avoiding sweeteners, executing egg fasts, following fat fasts, restricting calories, increasing calories, fasting intermittently, and ordering more supplements all while testing blood glucose, blood ketones, urine ketones, and breath ketones. When my scales didn’t register a loss, I ordered a new scale that measured percent body fat, convinced the old one was just hopelessly broken—probably because I was weighing three or four times a day!

In addition to weighing, I was taking measurements and photos to monitor progress. It took a full fourteen months to lose an additional 30 pounds, and I was still 20 or so pounds from my goal. In short, I was obsessed. If I read a compelling argument that wearing purple underwear and holding your nose while eating underwater would guarantee weight loss, I’d try it. Between the LCHF library I collected, the journal articles, and blog posts, I spent nearly every waking moment trying to figure out how to make my body smaller. Incidentally, my husband David decided to joined me on my low carb journey, and lost 60 lbs, though he was a lot more relaxed about it all than me (and lost it more quickly and easil than me, of course!) In late February, I stumbled across a blog post by Kelly Williams Hogan in one of the numerous low carb Facebook forums that I frequent. She sounded like a long lost sister as she described her weight loss struggles! Kelly’s journey ultimately led her to eliminate all plant foods from her diet.

Still, the idea of no veggies sounded extreme to me. Yes, a meat-based diet still seemed extreme to the woman who had continued to try everything to no avail. But, I was intrigued, and so I decided to try it. Within three days my energy level was up and my scales were down. And something odd happened. Me, the queen of low carb food blogging recipes, the woman who faithfully tried two new LCHF recipes per week, who even “invented” a few baked goods, found that food was no longer fascinating. Eating ground beef at each meal—the two big meals I began to eat each day—was satiating and simple. By week two, I loved breezing into the grocery store meat department and breezing right out. I saved time shopping, and I certainly saved time cooking. Among the changes I noticed were that I was happiest eating a big meal early in the day whenever I was hungry. Some days that means eating at a traditional breakfast hour and other days it means eating at lunch time for my first meal.

Instead of eating a small meal for my first meal, I began eating like a lumberjack—two burgers, two eggs, four or five pieces of bacon and maybe a sprinkle of cheese. A meal like that leaves me satisfied for up to eight hours. For dinner, I eat a similar meal and then I don’t eat again until breakfast. At the end of week two, I also had my menstrual cycle, which didn’t bring irrational cravings or wild mood swings like it normally did. It was quite uneventful, which was remarkable. By week three my fridge had more room in it, especially when I cleaned out the veggies that were going bad because I had neglected them. When I went to Pinterest to find a recipe for a friend, I realized I had nearly 1500 followers and thousands of LCHF recipes. I began to understand that I had made this journey incredibly complex when what seemed to work for my body was meat and water. By week four, my husband decided to join me which is the ultimate high praise. Along the way, I noticed that cravings – which had plagued me over the past three months – were minimized on zero carb.

I already ate very clean, but minimizing carbohydrates to what is present in animal foods like eggs and dairy – and limiting my intake even of those – simply made me feel more satisfied, more energized, and more clear headed. After thirty days, I’m in love with my scale again. In my first 30 days of eating a meat-based diet, I’ve lost ten pounds and my goal weight finally seems attainable. Once again, I have the unspeakable thrill of stepping on the scales and seeing a new “personal best” that I’ve never in my adult life seen before looking back at me on the scales. More than that, I’ve let go of the complicated recipes, of focusing on food for entertainment, and of treating myself like a human test subject in a never ending weight loss trial. Meat, water, an occasional egg, and a little dairy are enough, more than enough to help me finish the journey to my goal weight and to complete the healing of the hurts I still seek to understand. Please visit my Testimonials page to read the stories of others following a Zero Carb diet.